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Get the content of a specific page (by ID)

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<?php // would echo post 7’s content up until the <!–more–> tag $post_7 = get_post(7); $excerpt = $post_7->post_excerpt; echo $excerpt; // would get post 12’s entire content after which you // can manipulate it with your own trimming preferences $post_12 = get_post(12); $trim_me = $post_12->post_content; my_trim_function( $trim_me ); ?>

Get the Current Page Number

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When WordPress is using pagination like this, there’s a query variable $paged that it keys on. So page 1 is $paged=1 and page 15 is $paged=15. You can get the value of this variable with the following code: $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; Getting the total number of pages is a bit trickier. … Read more

Get page id by template

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When a page is created, the assigned template to that page is saved as custom post meta in the same way as custom fields. The meta_key is _wp_page_template and the meta_value will be the page template You can simply make use of get_pages to retrieve all pages which have a meta_value of the specified template … Read more

Hook for post and page load

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You can use the wp hook and check the global $wp_query object or any conditional. add_action( ‘wp’, ‘wpse69369_special_thingy’ ); function wpse69369_special_thingy() { if ( ‘special_cpt’ === get_post_type() AND is_singular() ) return print “Yo World!”; return printf( ‘<p>Nothing to see here! Check the object!<br /></p><pre>%s</pre>’, var_export( $GLOBALS[‘wp_query’], true ) ); } See: wp in codex.wordpress.org and … Read more

Custom templates not showing up in template dropdown

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Just in WordPress 4.9 there’s this bug: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42573 causing the template files to only be rescanned once every hour. To fix (until they release a new WP version with this changed), download the patch on that bug ticket and make the changes from the patch to wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php. Hope this saves someone the 2 hours I … Read more